When we run a program on a computer, don't we instruct the OS to make a copy of the program in the local memory, and then copies of individual parts of the program (instructions) onto the CPU. Isn't that technically going against the licence

Tell that to the judge, and see how good an argument he thinks it is for ignoring "you may not make more copies of the software than specified in this agreement."....

Well the court will ask 'experts' to give their opinion and if its you and me, maybe we'll say its BS. But maybe some expert may concur with the idea that technically its breaking the contract. I wonder if its ever been tested in court...

The session on Internet of Things which these slides are from starts in about 30 minutes, right now (about 00:30 UK time) the live stream just finished showing a .NET 2015 session (Jay Schmelzer did briefly mention Rapsberry Pi and Xbox One as platforms where .net apps could run) There's also this session which starts at 03:30 UK time "Windows for Makers: Raspberry Pi 2, Arduino and More" http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2 ... tedsession. Hopefully they would make "Windows 10 IoT Core" preview download available shortly after that session ends... I need to go to bed now but I'll check this again when I get to work tomorrow!

I assume this means that a Raspberry Pi running Win10 IoT Core would be a very stripped down version of Windows which only has one Universal App deployed to it? "No shell or MS apps" is interesting - maybe this just means there will be no start screen, control panel etc (of course no desktop) but there would still be a graphical interface of some sort? By which I mean, keyboard, mouse, accelerated graphics, enough to be able to use a graphical Universal App.

About licensing... I suspect it would not be allowed for someone to build and redistribute an SD card image of the preview or release versions of Win10 IoT Core for free on the internet. Obviously companies who are building products using a Raspberry Pi would license Win10 from Microsoft. For people who just want to play with it at home "for evaluation purposes" and so on, I'm sure there will continue to be free evaluation versions of Visual Studio with everything needed to build their own Win10 IoT Core image for the Raspberry Pi - the same like VS2008 and Windows Embedded Compact 7 are available.

So one needs a PC with Windows 10 Preview installed, so basically despite the hype the RPi is as many have said, me included, is being used as a test bed for Windows 10 ARM Apps. Yep cross-platform development.

Not at all, Microsoft want Apps Developed which have the same look and feel and features, without the End User worrying whether they are using a Windows 10 ARM Phone or a x86 Tablet / PC / Laptop as well as XBox...

For folks who signed up for the program and haven't received an email update, we apologize. We are working to fix our email system and you will be receiving an update from us shortly (highlighting the release of Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2). We've been trying to limit our email communication until we have new information (good feedback that we've probably been too quiet).

Now we have our first release out we will be regularly updating the bits (approximately monthly) expect to see more communication from us.

tohipfortheroom wrote:Does anyone know where I could find a Board Source Package or a BSP For short, I'm just stuck on this it has to be for the raspberry pi 2 obviously

Has nobody explained to you that Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi is still completely vapourware?

It was announced with a massive fanfare on 2nd Feb and nearly three months later there's nothing, nada, diddly squat, sweetFA, the square root of b**ger all that has emerged from Redmond, WA for the Raspberry Pi.

Not at all, Microsoft want Apps Developed which have the same look and feel and features, without the End User worrying whether they are using a Windows 10 ARM Phone or a x86 Tablet / PC / Laptop as well as XBox...

Not at all, Microsoft want Apps Developed which have the same look and feel and features, without the End User worrying whether they are using a Windows 10 ARM Phone or a x86 Tablet / PC / Laptop as well as XBox...

So you agree. Not cross-platform at all.

Obviously we have a different of opinion of what cross-platform Apps are.....

To me an App which checks architecture and then installs relevant libraries etcetera is Cross-Platform

pranishk wrote:For folks who signed up for the program and haven't received an email update, we apologize. We are working to fix our email system and you will be receiving an update from us shortly (highlighting the release of Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2). We've been trying to limit our email communication until we have new information (good feedback that we've probably been too quiet).

Now we have our first release out we will be regularly updating the bits (approximately monthly) expect to see more communication from us.